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Case get made. And ill talk to one of the smartest judges, a former cop, about what it would take to get the feds to act. Plus, stolen valor. The shocking video of a pretend war hero, and the real hero who confront ed him and shared the story with millions. All that and a lot more. Lets get started. Up first, a case of rape that may instead be a hoax. University of virginia has been rocked in recent weeks by an explosive article in Rolling Stone about a woman named jackie who tells a terrible st...

Become a major figure in the russia story because he had nothing to do with it. As far as we know he never met with secret agents in prague orn texted Vladimir Putin on hiswe blackberry. He never managed a macedonian content farm. If barr betrayed this country for a sack of rubles or a case of vodka, nobody has ever proved it but it doesnt matter. The russian story cannot die. Cnn, the washington post, many others have too much invested in that story. The fact that has been untrue is irrelevant....

Influence the investigation. Its arguing that the Mueller Report is far more damning. Its not pretty. An ugly, damning piece of business. I agree with him that its absolutely damning. Democrats say the report is damning. The report, apart from the special counsel is more damning than all the reports. Far more damning to the president than the attorney general initially indicated. But its still very damning. Tucker as we told you damning. That is what the geniuses concluded before a single one of...

Asking questions. did we get any indication in which direction the federal judge might be moving? >> reporter: he asked some skeptical questions of the cnn lawyer. he also spent a long time talking with the government lawyer. eric wempel said he couldnt tell which way kelly was going to go. cnns reporters were in the courtroom, heading outside now. so well hear more from them about some of the details of the proceeding. but we do know, the government lawyers took a relatively radical position ab...

"the washington post." eric, from a journalistic standpoint what bothered you in terms of what level of fact checking took place? >> thanks for having me on. the thing that bothered me about the story is something you find in the very best journalism, which is a reproducibility standard. i found nothing -- almost nothing in that story that i could hang on to or someone i could call or a document i could cite or an authority i could say go to and say, is this true. there was nothing, very little ...

The harsh criticism it has received may have been unjust. i interviewed the journalist who wrote the story on my radio program. her name is sabrina erdley. this is what she said last week. im gleaning from what you wrote, you buy it, you believe it. >> yes, at the end of the day, you know, its -- it is, you know -- i wasnt in that room, you know, so i cant really know what happened. but everything about jackie is entirely credible. i put her story through the ringer, i talked to all of her frien...